Friday, April 24, 2009

BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz!

Well, another week is over, and so is Fat Cyclist's contest. While I've already been in touch with the smock winners to coordinate the distribution of smocks (via carrier pigeon--I refuse to support the evil shipping industry), it seems that the person who actually "gets" to meet me has yet to reply to the contest organizers. Hopefully he's OK, though I suspect he's probably just underwhelmed by the prospect of meeting me to the point of either complete apathy or sleep.

Speaking of apathy and things that are soporific, I'm pleased to present you with a quiz. As always, study the item, think, and click on your answer. If you're right you'll know it, and if you're wrong, you'll see another skinny hipster on a colorful bike.

Thanks for reading, commenting, and emailing. And remember: pigeon power! I'm even returning that Look via pigeon(s), so if 20-ish pounds of crabon falls on you sometime in the next few days, don't blame me. Blame the evil shipping industry and/or mother nature.

Ride safe this weekend,

--BSNYC/RTMS

You rode past me on your pretty white and purple bike and turned back to say something. I couldn't hear you because the music from my helmet was too loud. I was spacing out a bit, and probably made a weird face at you. I'm pretty curious about what you had to say (I hope it was positive.) I saw you again under the bridge on Jay Street, but you were gone in a flash, opposite my direction. See you out there.

"A few good smacks usually bends the rim of the wheel back to close enough. Be a bit careful here as the wheel acts like it is spring loaded, and that it will bounce. A hard smack can result in a hefty bounce, which if you are not aware of the result, could come back and slap you in the face"

Once in awhile a Google search leads me to something posted on Associated Content (where the wheel straightening advice was posted). Information hosted on that site is almost always categorically wrong. I remember one article about resume writing urging people to use the right homonym, and to NOT get caught saying they pored over a document when they clearly meant poured.

Snobbie: of course you're correct. I guess I was blinded by the glare from the horn-figure head-(over)headlight combo. This machine really needs full coverage brass plated fenders to match the other "up grades". That would be "tight".

"I rarely let people ride the pegs, as flip flop hubs aren't quite as beefy as BMX hubs. I usually just stand on them on downhills. Plus I run brakeless, add another 140 pounds in the mix, not fun, its usually relegated to 8mph on the sidewalk lol. I also just like the look of them"

Then he says "I just love the control that you have.", which I guess is important at 8 mph on the sidewalk.

More awesome Associated Content. This is from "How to Restore a Bicycle"

"To begin to restore your bicycle you will need to find replacement parts. Try looking in bicycle magazines, both on and off the net, and bicycle shops in the city where you live. You may even try auction sites like Ebay to find some of the parts you’ll need to completely restore your project."

In Vegas, it only rains 4" a year. When it rains, we just don't ride. I still rock fenders, though, because we are constantly running over rattlesnakes, lizards, desert tortises, and so on. It makes cleaning the guts off of the bike so much easier.

I, too, enjoyed seeing the Evil Kenevil flashback. When my kids were in elementary school, I used to go to PTA meetings with Robbie Kenevil and his stripper wife.

After a rough year that saw him making headlines for all the wrong reasons, CommieCanuck just wants to hit the news when he wins a bike race.

Last year saw Canada’s prince of the cobblestones fall back to earth after failing an out-of-competition control for cocaine in late May and then being forced out of the Tour de France.

Commie never faced a racing sanction because cocaine is only considered a banned stimulant if detected during competition. Because he still faces possible charges in a Canadian court, Commie doesn’t want to talk about anything except bike racing.

The new Commie makes his season debut at the Tour of Qatar next week and then returns to the Tour of California in February before another assault on the northern classics.

VeloNews' European correspondent Andrew Hood sat down with commie to talk about BSNYC comments, his growing rivalry with Mark Cavendish and why he’ll never try to win the Tour de France. Here are excerpts from the interview:

VN: You’ve won two Roubaixs and two BSNYCs, do the races ever become routine for you?

TB: They’re hard enough that they’re always interesting. That’s not a problem. They’re the biggest races in the world. Sure, I’ve already won them, but it’s always a new challenge, new rivals. I don’t need anything extra to keep me motivated. I like racing, I like the sport. I try to be focused on the races that I am good at. I still haven’t won San Remo. I’d like to win that at least once and a few more classics.

VN: You’ve achieved most of your major goals already, but no San Remo, are you starting to feel more pressure to win?

TB: I tell you, it’s easier to win Paris-Roubaix than it is to win BSNYC. BSNYC is more like a casino. It’s a big mess in the sprint. It’s possible I'll never win it. I have maybe four or five more possibilities. That’s BSNYC. If it was just a question of legs, I would have won it already three or four times.

After a rough year that saw him making headlines for all the wrong reasons, CommieCanuck just wants to hit the news when he wins a bike race.

Last year saw Canada’s "prince of the cobblestones" fall back to earth after failing an out-of-competition control for cocaine in late May and then being forced out of the Tour de France.

Commie never faced a racing sanction because cocaine is only considered a banned stimulant if detected during competition. Because he still faces possible charges in a Canadian court, Commie doesn’t want to talk about anything except bike racing.

VeloNews' European correspondent Andrew Hood sat down with commie to talk about BSNYC comments, his growing rivalry with Mark Cavendish and why he’ll never try to win the Tour de France. Here are excerpts from the interview:

VN: You’ve won two Roubaixs and two BSNYCs, do the races ever become routine for you?

CC: They’re hard enough that they’re always interesting. That’s not a problem. They’re the biggest races in the world. Sure, I’ve already won them, but it’s always a new challenge, new rivals. I don’t need anything extra to keep me motivated. I like racing, I like the sport. I try to be focused on the races that I am good at. I still haven’t won San Remo. I’d like to win that at least once and a few more classics.

VN: You’ve achieved most of your major goals already, but no BSNYC, are you starting to feel more pressure to win?

CC: I tell you, it’s easier to win Paris-Roubaix than it is to win BSNYC. BSNYC is more like a casino. It’s a big mess in the sprint. It’s possible I'll never win it. I have maybe four or five more possibilities. That’s BSNYC. If it was just a question of legs, I would have won it already three or four times.

still wrong, ...my failed out-of-competition control was for Pabst Blue Ribbon, but I had a good excuse, it was my dog's beer and I'm using PBR to treat myself for a long suffering family ailment of Tourette's syndrome.

thank god its friday and I don't have to be exposed to you retards for a few days. gives me time to go rooting around to fill my rucksack with cobalt-bearing minerals and seashells to power my headlights

"And that is a big surprise, I really thought his legs had left him behind a few kilometers back, but you see: He's Canadian, the beer store is open, and all of a sudden, they're 1000 meters from the finish."

"Though he's bald, Commie's only 23 years old!"

"Commie is riding like the halcyon days of Eddy Merckx."

"Commie’s added another page to this fairy tale that just keeps going on."

Canuck the Next Casualty in War on DopingCommie Canuck of Suanier Duval has reportedly tested positive for EPO use during the rest day of the Tour de France. Canuck is but another casualty in the war on doping proclaimed by the UCI and the ASO.

Canuck's B-sample was also confirmed as positive for a homologous blood transfusion, and he was sacked from his Astana team.

How Canuck thought he could get away with such infractions escapes the editor of Cycling Commentary.

We realize that you are all excited with yourself from yesterday's gloating, but palping yourself as The Cheese? Don't make this mistake.

The Cheese is a highly coveted title, especially considering its importance in the world of cycling. After your big day yesterday whipping the comment board into a roadbikereview-like bee's nest over the fender issue, I can see that you have some skills.

However, like its yellow jersey of a cousin, The Cheese must be bestowed after grueling numbers of refreshes, hours of punishing comment drafting, and a unilateral acceptance of your cheesiness by certain cheese-granting and governing bodies.

To date, you have not prepared an application for consideration nor have you demonstrated the necessary credentials for such enlistment. Hell, you only came up with a sweet screen name YESTERDAY, fer chrissakes.

I digress. The Cheese cannot, nay SHOULD NOT be merely claimed as you have so carelessly done. That would be as contrived as rubbing a blog for the NYT on buying your way into cycling and training for a climb on the TDF or something.

I'm pissed I didn't win that contest. Damn fatty always manages to get me to donate money to livestrong, and I always end up empty handed. All that money ends up doing is increasing lance awareness. Wish he'd pick a better run cancer charity.

its about time fixie inc. ("cycles for heroes") got noticed and highlighted a bit more here. i believe their "car scratcher" bar ends were mentioned before but ignored. i recommend you root a bit more around their site, and follow eg. the links to the Karlsruhe fixie "crew".a staged photo shooting that explores a whole new domain in the regime of the "anticlimatic".

i don't think those racist slogans are serious, though, they're just utterly clueless.there was a mp3-player company in germany once that made a model in the ibeat series with a black colorway called "ibeat blaxx"

Wow Frank. First you upload your photo to an open-source site, then get upset when some "jagoff" doesn't ask if they can use it on their open-source site, which drove over 1000 views? So much for gratitude.

As the creator of the image, it's actually up to you to mark the image with a copyright notification if you don't wish to have it reproduced without permission. Otherwise, maybe you don't want to post your *wonderful* pictures for all to see on teh intarwebs.

Also, you may want to actually read the fine print called "Terms and Conditions for Use" for Flickr instead of taking one of your commenter's word for what constitutes fair use.

Who is this Hamil Taylorton guy who raced at Battenkill? He listed his sex as chimera on the race application? He crossed the finsh line 1 hour and 15 minutes before the peloton crossed? And when he crossed the line he just kept on going heading SSW towards NYC?

I'm going to lose my job, frank, if you continue to demand things of the elusive bikesnod, because I keep reading this poop. if you had to develop all your pics to see them ($$$$$), would you take so many and post so many??

Nah, its cool, like some of you guys said, its all in good fun, and Bikesnobnyc, i just added you to my rss feed. I visited this site occationally, but I've found some interesting stuff. For some reason I don't have a reply fromu. Oh well whatev

I have it on very good authority that 2010 Tour de France stage 1 Rotterdam Netherlands will be ridden on 'DUTCH CITY BIKES'. All riders will ride identical 'DUTCH CITY BIKES' during the first stage of the 2010 race.

sincerely,if there were tv shows in the US like that one the dog is in, i would be watchin.crazy...when i was living in mexico city, i once watched their crazy version of americas funniest home videos... cept the videos were scary, people fleeing car accidents on fire, police beat downs. the best/strangest was when a fireman was trying to save a cat from out of a tree and the cat scratched him and he fell like three stories... the whole time a laugh track played in the background and thecammaras would pan to a live audience hysterically laughing.

Ah, Associated Content. Where else can you find quality bicycle "repairman" tips from fellows like Ralston Heath, who lists his own education/experience as "Been there, Done that and in most cases have a t-shirt to prove it" and whose interests include "esoteric" and "occult."

Gotta love that gold pentagram for an avatar, though. Wonder if he could build a wheel with a pentagram spoke pattern using a "rubber hammer" and a "block of wood."

Nope, if I need socks or sans-a-belt slacks, I'm riding to the Nordstrom's at the mall in White Plains.

(If I don't have a full blown cold in the AM, I'm heading to River Road or Piermont. Strange thing though, all my miles are garbage miles no matter where I ride. Oh well, one man's trash is another man's treasure.)

Ooh. Fixed gear riding dates all the way back to the 50s (Times Online)! To be part of something so old-school is truly inspiring. Perhaps he can write about ska, which dates all the way back to the late 70s...

Congrats on Blog Of Note! I couldn't help but notice that we both employ some of the same styles in our blogs, so I find your blog amazing! lol I also couldn't help noticing that I'm not a Blog Of Note?

Can you please supply your data to confirm Snob's dawdling as of late. I'm sure that we can correlate it to either his floor manager at IKEA catching on to Snob's fecklessness during the afternoon, or the increasing quality of his Lounging Herbs with his Lance Armstrong connect.

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While I love cycling and embrace it in all its forms, I'm also extremely critical. So I present to you my venting for your amusement and betterment. No offense meant to the critiqued. Always keep riding!